Abstract: A load sensor includes: an electrically-conductive elastic body; an electrically-conductive member having a linear shape and disposed so as to cross the electrically-conductive elastic body; and a dielectric body disposed between the electrically-conductive elastic body and the electrically-conductive member. A width of the electrically-conductive elastic body in a longitudinal direction of the electrically-conductive member is changed such that a relationship between a load and a contact area between the electrically-conductive elastic body and the electrically-conductive member via the dielectric body becomes close to a linear relationship.

Abstract: A load sensor is configured to detect, as change in capacitance, change, in a contact area between an electrically-conductive elastic body and a dielectric body, that occurs due to a load applied to an upper face of the load sensor. In the load sensor, a plurality of sensor parts each configured to detect the load are disposed so as to be arranged in a plane direction, and a buffer part configured to suppress displacement of the upper face due to the load applied to a first sensor part from being propagated to a second sensor part adjacent to the first sensor part is disposed between the first sensor part and the second sensor part.

Abstract: Provided is a bed (10) used for a grinding machine (1). The bed has a bed front part (11) on which a workpiece support device (20) is mounted and a bed rear part (15) on which a grinding wheel stand (30) is mounted. An upper portion (12) of the bed front part (11) protrudes further to both of the left and the right than a lower portion (13). A front installation section (17a) is provided in the lower portion (13), and in the bed rear part (15), two rear installation sections (17b) are provided spaced apart from each other in the left-right direction. In this configuration, resonant vibration of the bed (10) due to the vibration of the grinding wheel stand (30) can be suppressed.

Abstract: A browsing service of messages exchanged through posts and responses to the posts among multiple users is provided in a message-browsing system. A terminal device includes an assigning unit assigning user images corresponding to multiple specific users who are a subset or all of the multiple users to respective ones of a number of reference positions that is equal to the number of the user images on a screen according to a predetermined rule, a position determining unit determining the reference positions assigned to the user images corresponding to the multiple specific users as display positions displaying the respective user images, and a position changing unit changing a display position of a user image corresponding to a user responding to a post another user has contributed to a position close to a user image corresponding to another user who has contributed the post.

Abstract: A game method includes making an output control to move at least one object displayed over a display screen toward a predefined area of the display screen; making, for each of the at least one object, a first success/failure determination, based on first and second timings, wherein at the first timing the object moving over the display screen reaches the predefined area of the display screen, and at the second timing the acceptor accepts the inputs; and making, for each of the at least one object, a second success/failure determination, based on motions of the object, depending on a type of operation that the acceptor determined from the inputs that the acceptor has accepted, in a case that a result of the first success/failure determination represents success.

Abstract: A message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images corresponding to respective multiple users, a motion storage unit storing pieces of motion information defining motions of the images associated with types of feelings or forms of posts, a keyword storage unit storing keywords according to the types of feelings, a determination unit determining whether or not any of the types can be identified from a sentence of a post by determining whether the sentence includes any of the keywords stored in the keyword storage unit, and a setting unit, when a type of feelings can be identified, selecting one of pieces of motion information that corresponds to the identified type of feelings, selecting one piece of motion information that corresponds to a form of the post when the type cannot be identified, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to the user who has contributed the post based on the selected piece of motion information.

Abstract: A message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images to be displayed on a screen, each user image corresponding to respective ones of the multiple users, an input instruction unit providing a response in multiple response forms to a post, the response forms corresponding to multiple fixed response sentences that are different from one another, a motion storage unit storing pieces of motion information defining motions of the user images, each in association with respective ones of the multiple response forms, and a setting unit selecting a piece of motion information that corresponds to a response form of a response provided to a post, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to a user who has contributed the post, the user image being displayed on a screen of another user who has provided the response.

Abstract: A game method includes making an output control to move at least one object displayed over a display screen toward a predefined area of the display screen; making, for each of the at least one object, a first success/failure determination, based on first and second timings, wherein at the first timing the object moving over the display screen reaches the predefined area of the display screen, and at the second timing the acceptor accepts the inputs; and making, for each of the at least one object, a second success/failure determination, based on motions of the object, depending on a type of operation that the acceptor determined from the inputs that the acceptor has accepted, in a case that a result of the first success/failure determination represents success.

Abstract: As a result of performing a comparing and determining process of determining the relationship among the bandwidth of distributed data in real time in a local group, the incoming data bandwidth to the local group, and the outgoing data bandwidth from the local group, the increase/decrease management and the connection management of each terminal device in the local group are performed. The comparing and determining process compares, for example, a sum of the total sum of the terminal possessed transfer bandwidths and the incoming data bandwidth from other groups to the local group with a sum of the value obtained by multiplying the bandwidth of distributed data in the local group by the number of terminal devices in the local group, the outgoing data bandwidth from the local group, and a predetermined determination margin.

Abstract: To make a user interested in a service if the user provides a response, a message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images which are displayed on a screen and correspond to the multiple users, respectively, an input instruction unit providing a response in multiple response forms to a post, the response forms corresponding to multiple fixed response sentences which are different from each other, a motion storage unit storing motion information defining motions of the user images, which is associated with the multiple response forms, respectively, and a setting unit selecting motion information corresponding to a response form of a response provided to a post, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to a user contributing the post, the user image being displayed on a screen of another user providing the response.

Abstract: To make a user interested in a service even if feelings of a sentence cannot be identified, a message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images corresponding to the multiple users, respectively, a motion storage unit storing motion information defining motions of the images associated with types of feelings or forms of posts, a keyword storage unit storing keywords according to the types, a determination unit determining whether or not any of the types can be identified by finding keywords stored in the keyword storage unit in a sentence of a post, and a setting unit, when a type of feelings can be identified, selecting motion information corresponding to the identified feelings, selecting motion information corresponding to a form of the post when the type cannot be identified, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to the user contributing the post based on the selected motion information.

Abstract: To easily grasp relations between posts and responses by other users, when a browsing service for browsing messages exchanged through posts and responses to the posts among multiple users is provided in a message-browsing system, a terminal device 20 includes an assigning unit 254 assigning user images corresponding to multiple specific users who are a subset or all of the multiple users to reference positions as many as the number of the user images on a screen respectively according to a predetermined rule, a position determining unit 255 determining the reference positions assigned to the user images corresponding to the multiple specific users as display positions displaying the user images respectively, and a position changing unit 256 changing a display position of a user image corresponding to a user responding to a message another user posts to a position close to a user image corresponding to the other user posting the message.

Abstract: A group management device determines a priority level that represents priority order of allowing a participating terminal to preferentially participate in a group, to which the group management device belongs, based on information relating the participating terminal and information relating to terminals that are managed by the group management device only in a case where the group management device receives information relating to the participating terminal, which has transmitted a participation request to the group, to which the group management device belongs. Based on the determined priority level, the group management device determines whether to transmit the participation request to another group management device and whether to reply to the participating terminal.

Abstract: In a video signal processing device that generates an interpolated frame between original-image frames formed by an existing video signal, a frame interpolation unit generates pixel interpolation information indicating for each pixel a process in which a pixel forming the interpolated frame is generated. Next, an enhancement-filter-coefficient adjusting unit determines for each pixel a level of enhancement to be applied to the pixel forming the interpolated frame by using pixel interpolation information, and adjusts for each pixel a coefficient of an enhancement filter according to a determined level. An enhancement-filter applying unit then applies the enhancement filter of which coefficient is adjusted for each pixel, to each pixel forming the interpolated frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a game system wherein two-dimensional images are generated on the basis of a virtual three-dimensional space used in the progression of a game, and a game screen using said two-dimensional images is displayed on a large monitor (4). Said game system is provided with: small monitors (7) separate from the large monitor (4); and small cameras (8) that can image the area around the large monitor (7). The game system combines images taken by the small cameras (8) together with other images and outputs the results to the small monitors (7).

Abstract: The disclosed game system is provided with a large monitor (4), two gun-shaped controllers (5), and a small monitor (7) provided on each controller (5). Said game system: creates a virtual three-dimensional game space (GW) for playing a game; generates two-dimensional images related to a prescribed extent of a part of the virtual three-dimensional space (GW) in accordance with prescribed conditions; outputs said two-dimensional images to the large monitor (4); generates other two-dimensional images related to a fixed extent of a part of the virtual three-dimensional game space (GW) in accordance with the directions that the muzzles (5j) of the gun-shaped controllers (5) are pointing, said directions not depending on the prescribed conditions used in the determination of the extent outputted to the large monitor (4); and outputs said other two-dimensional images to the small monitors (7) on the controllers (5).

Abstract: In a pixel interpolation apparatus for interpolating pixels, an edge pixel detection unit detects edge pixels constituting an edge among pixels on lines positioned above/below the interpolation pixel. A continuous edge detection unit detects edge pixels in which two pixels or more consecutively line up among edge pixels detected by the edge pixel detection unit as a continuous edge. A continuous edge pair detection unit determines the combination of the continuous edges detected on each of the lines above and below the interpolation pixel among the continuous edges detected by the continuous edge detection unit. An edge direction determination unit determines the edge direction of the interpolation pixel on the basis of the positional relation of one set of continuous edges determined by the continuous edge pair detection unit. An interpolation pixel calculation unit calculates an interpolation pixel using the edge direction determined by the edge direction determination unit.

Abstract: A combing artifacts detection apparatus includes a feature-value calculating unit that calculates a feature value from an input image; a film-mode detecting unit that detects a film mode by using the feature value; and a pixel-difference calculating unit that calculates a pixel difference between fields by using 2:3 pulldown sequence detection information and input-image combination information that are results of the film mode detection. The apparatus also includes a luminance-variation determining unit that determines luminance variation based on a calculation result of the pixel-difference calculating unit; a combing artifacts-candidate detecting unit that detects a combing artifacts candidate per line based on a determination result of the luminance-variation determining unit; and a combing artifacts determining unit that determines whether a combing artifacts occurs for each image based on a detection result of the combing artifacts-candidate detecting unit.

Abstract: In a multicast distribution system in which terminal devices on a distribution path are hierarchically grouped, a first terminal device which has detected a loss of a receiving packet transmits to a second terminal device located upstream of the first terminal device a retransmission request for a packet retransmission to the first terminal device and a third terminal device which receives a packet first in a group located downstream of a group to which the first terminal device belongs. The second terminal device which has received the retransmission request transmits a retransmission packet to both the first and third terminal devices.

Abstract: A motion vector is searched for each block of the current video frame by using a previous average motion vector within a screen as a reference motion vector, and whether or not interpolation is effective is determined by using the obtained motion vector. If the interpolation is determined to be effective, an interpolation frame is generated between the current video frame and a preceding video frame by using the obtained motion vector.